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July 27, 2005, Wednesday

As NASA prepares to return the space shuttle to orbit this spring, a debate over whether the fleet is as safe as it should be has been building inside and outside the space agency. There is widespread agreement that the National Aeronautics and...

October 2, 2004, Saturday

The difficulty of developing an in-flight inspection and repair system may force NASA to consider alternative approaches if it wants to resume flying the space shuttle next spring, an oversight group said Wednesday. The return-to-flight task force...

May 20, 2004, Thursday

By THOM SHANKER and BILL CARTER; Thom Shanker reported from Washington for this article and Bill Carter from New York

A White House spokesman, Trent Duffy, said on Friday that President Bush had seen photographs of the coffins of service members killed in Iraq arriving at Dover Air Force Base that were made public on Thursday and agreed with the Pentagon that...

April 24, 2004, Saturday

Some of the nation's space shuttles may have flown for 25 years with a potentially fatal problem in the rudders of their tail sections, a NASA official said Monday. The official, William W. Parsons, the shuttle program manager, said some gears in...

March 23, 2004, Tuesday

''The best marriage of human spaceflight and science.'' That is how Dr. John M. Grunsfeld, astronomer, astronaut and chief scientist of NASA, described the Hubble Space Telescope when he announced last month that the agency was canceling maintenance...

February 3, 2004, Tuesday

One year after the shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas, NASA workers held a quiet memorial on Sunday at the moment of destruction. ''One year ago, at this very hour, the unthinkable occurred,'' the Kennedy Space Center's director, Jim Kennedy,...

February 2, 2004, Monday

NASA workers at the Johnson Space Center bowed their heads in silence on Friday and wiped away tears in a tribute to the seven astronauts who died on the space shuttle Columbia last year. They also vowed to honor their former colleagues by...

January 31, 2004, Saturday

The first piece of wreckage lifted from the first trailer to arrive here from the fields of Texas and Louisiana was a window frame. Just 10 days before, on the morning of Feb. 1, 2003, astronauts had still been looking through that frame at the...